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  • Selections for Kilbeggan – Apr. 24th 2026

    Selections for Kilbeggan – Apr. 24th 2026

    4.15: MASTER HAKU (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON) 4.50: DESERT HAVEN – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/NOEL MEADE) 5.23: EURO MAKER – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/ADRIAN MURRAY) 5.56: CHEMDAWG – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 6.28: COPOLLA – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 6.59: GIVE HIM A CHANCE – EW – (TIERNAN POWER-ROCHE/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 7.29: HITTHEHAYSON (CONOR STONE-WALSH/IAN DONOGHUE)…

  • Selections for Dundalk – Apr. 23rd 2026

    Selections for Dundalk – Apr. 23rd 2026

    5.10: NAMIID (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 5.45: PLUSHY (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 6.15: PUSH HARDER – EW – (WAYNE LORDAN/CHRIS TIMMONS) 6.45: DESERT OF THE SEA – EW – (SADHBH TORMEY (5)/TOM MCCOURT) 7.15: DRUIDS GLEN (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 7.45: BEAUPARC – EW – (COLIN KEANE/GERRY KEANE) 8.15: JAWHARY – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY/ADO MCGUINNESS)

  • Leave Eoghan Frayne alone!

    Leave Eoghan Frayne alone!

    No matter in what facet of life it may be, whenever something goes wrong, there has to be a fall guy or girl, doesn’t there? Whether that be how Brian Cowen and the late Brian Lenihan were vilified and excoriated even though they were forced into signing up to a bailout the country didn’t need…

  • Selections for Gowran – Apr. 22nd 2026

    Selections for Gowran – Apr. 22nd 2026

    4.38: KEOGIE – EW – (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.18: GO JUST DO IT (JOEY SHERIDAN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.48: GREYDREAMBELIEVER (RONAN WHELAN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.18: CITY OF MEMPHIS (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 6.48: IMNOTLEAVINYOU – EW – (WESLEY JOYCE (3)/MICK MULVANY) 7.18: KITTY BEAR (ORLA TYNAN (7)/ANDY SLATTERY) 7.48: ROYAL BELIEF (COLIN KEANE/CIAN COLLINS)

  • GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship 2026

    GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship 2026

    Counties ParticipatingThe following 16 Counties shall be eligible to participate in GAA Football All-IrelandSenior Championship (Sam Maguire Cup) (a) The 8 Provincial Champions and Runners-Up (b) The next 8 highest-ranked teams at the conclusion of the National League Exception to (b): The previous year’s Tailteann Cup Winners, if not alreadyqualified as one of the teams…

  • No longer a derisory destination

    No longer a derisory destination

    At the outset here, it will be willingly admitted yours truly has no idea where the phrase originated but that to “Send somebody to Coventry” was a derisory term which meant to get rid of somebody or to send them to somewhere wholly unpleasant. However, for as long as I can recall at least, in…

  • Jones return a needed lift for club and county

    Jones return a needed lift for club and county

    St Peter’s, Dunboyne…2-11Moynalvey…2-11 On a weekend when reasons for cheer were as scarce for devotees of Meath football as hen’s teeth, the return to action of Ronan Jones as a second half sub was a telling boost for Dunboyne as they maintained their recent run of momentum in the FL Div. 1 when coming from…

  • Nolan calls the tune as Dunboyne cut down the ‘Wood

    Nolan calls the tune as Dunboyne cut down the ‘Wood

    St Peter’s, Dunboyne…4-12 Longwood…1-14 Darragh Nolan’s left boot laid out the mood music as Dunboyne’s second string made light of the 10am throw in time on Sunday morning to claim the spoils against Longwood in Round 4 of the Div. 4 Football League. The corner forward had the locals in the mood for dancing with…

  • Selections for Tramore – Apr. 20th 2026

    Selections for Tramore – Apr. 20th 2026

    4,10: TELL US THIS (EOIN STAPLES (5)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 4.42: CROOKED PATH (DAN KING/DENIS HOGAN) 5.12: TIME IS A THIEF (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.42: KIMY – EW – (SEAN CLEARY-FARRELL (7)/TOM MULLINS) 6.12: JETAWAY NANA – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/CIAN COLLINS) 6.42: DROP A THREAT (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 7.12: CULLENWAINE – EW – (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN…

  • Ghosts of the past return to haunt

    Ghosts of the past return to haunt

    MEATH… 0-25 WESTMEATH… 4-18 Sometimes knowing too much can come back to kick you in the arse. So often did my late father warn me about the jinx of 1975 that the fear has always there that one day it would come back to  haunt as. For those fortunate enough to be too young to…

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